Hey everyone! This journal is a collaboration between Deltapotamus (https://www.deviantart.com/deltapotamus), Poisons-Kiss (https://www.deviantart.com/poisons-kiss), kaons (https://www.deviantart.com/kaons), and Lunarlueur (https://www.deviantart.com/lunarlueur), with additional help from Esveeka (https://www.deviantart.com/esveeka) and meystR (https://www.deviantart.com/meystr). equimanipulate (https://www.deviantart.com/equimanipulate) is supposed to be top-standard group, and we feel like we're losing that standard. It's supposed to be a place where you can count on getting critiques for your work, where only your best pieces are accepted. It's supposed to be a place that's perfectly acceptable for some of your pieces to be denied - and where denial of those pieces isn't taken personally but seen as an opportunity to improve.
Here is a list of our standards, complete
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
Neil Gaiman
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There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child. [...] These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen. [...] It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.
[...] but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. [.
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It's been over a year since the last journal entry now. I'm in college and haven't been doing as much art, which is weird given that I'm aiming for a studio art minor. Anyway, what art that I do make tends to be smaller, sketchier sorts of pieces. Some of it goes up on my tumblr blog, coolcurrybooks.
I'm cleaning out my gallery! This entire account is way too full of things I made at fourteen has very little of what I've been doing recently. Also, I'm trying to link all my different online accounts together, and I'd rather not have some of that older work sitting in my main gallery.
Instead of deleting the art, it's going into scraps. Not everything is going, but a lot of it. Over half of my photo manipulations have already been moved to scraps.
On the bright side, I'll be trying to get some of the more recent (and better) art on here.
I haven't been posting that much on here. There's two real reasons for this. The first is that I haven't been making as much art - hopefully that will change now that summer's here. The second, honestly, I let things pile up before I photograph them. I'm trying to get better about making WIP shots, updating, and such. Partly because of this, I've decided to make a blog to post artwork on.
I created a Tumblr account just for artwork - www.coolcurryart.tumblr.com I'll post WIP, sketches, and full works there.
I also created a wordpress blog for art and book reviews - www.theillustratedpage.wordpress.com Book reviews also tend towards reviewi